Stylometry

I was reading an article this morning that mentioned a styometric analysis of a controversial paragraph written by Roman historian Flavius Josephus. I’ve written several posts that could be called stylometry or adjacent, but I haven’t used that word. Here are some posts that touch on the statistical analysis of a text or of an author.

• Authorship in the Federalist Papers
• Using TF-IDF to pick out important words
• Natural language processing and unnatural text
• Estimating vocabulary size with Heaps’ law
• How rare are rare words
• A note on Zipf’s law

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